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unamccormack.bsky.social
NYT bestselling and BSFA award-winning writer. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
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🙁
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Gondor needs no king
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I love the film 😢
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OMG yes!
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Priorities ✔️
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Aww!
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Third time lucky
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I don’t think we ever really interacted on Twitter? So that’s a BlueSky bonus.
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Ha! Just send up the signal and it’s yours!
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Humph, he once ran me and buggy plus kiddo off the path barging his way across Lammas Land.
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No way! You should have asked!! I can send you a book plate?
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I dodged Hawking coming full pelt down Grange Road but we’ve all done that.
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This is a winner (winner korma dinner).
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Perfect.
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I do not count even as a minor celebrity, but I often think about how kind you were to look after my bag, about which I was quite anxious.
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Philip Pullman: “I was so excited to see the marvellous Laura Varnam on her run one day that I couldn’t manage a single word!”
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It was the headiest days of Going For Gold.
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❤️❤️❤️
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Nobody maintains their composure for a full bottle episode.
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Jonathan Dimbleby eating his way through the Quavers at a drinks reception.
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Oxford has only ever delivered Dominic Grieve.
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Michael Foot at the station surrounded by a bevy of young Labour beauties in whom he was taking no interest.
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Cambridge good for this kind of thing. Henry Kelly striding past the Mill plus entourage.
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Boo hiss to today
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And stood in front of Mary Beard once at the taxi rank. She was jolly and very nice.
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And it sneaks its treacheries past me, even when I check and reread!
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Completely agree. G’Kar one of my favourite characters in sf.
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(Just to add, I think Annie Bot was well written, and tremendously compelling. I gulped it down in two sittings. And that’s no small thing.)
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The more I think about MoT the more I like it.
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Which means it's not really a book about Annie; it's a book about Doug. Which might be the point? Thinking still in progress. Thanks for all these links - really helpful.
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There were points were I was muttering to myself, in the spirit of Not the 9 O'Clock News, "The appropriate response here, Annie, is off with his goolies."
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Give 'em the old razzle dazzle.
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I've read chunks in a "know your enemy" sort of way. (TBH, I have a suspicion the author identifies more with the women than with the lantern-jawed heroes.)
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Also her freedom comes from his instruction, really, unless I misread. I got very mixed messages from the whole book; it's really helpful to be reminded - actually, this isn't a woman.
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Christ
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I had some birds screaming through my window at 4.30.
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boop
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😆😆😆
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Do you get what I mean though?
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Where there’s a whim there’s a way.
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I found it uncomfortably close to a John Norman novel. Much better written though.
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Like the old Amish guy says in “Witness”: “You be careful out among them English.”
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😆😆😆
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Ah that’s splendid! Thank you!
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“everyday whimsy”
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That’s really good. I have my own thoughts about Annie Bot, and that’s helped clarify my misgivings.